Thursday, July 8, 2010

Back from cairns, where we played a blistering no electro acoustic set to a rapt audience of about 15. We'll support these cryptopop bands from up north......

Up-and-coming post-funk savants Purple Spit are coming to Melbourne! Theyre bringing their heartfelt melodies and upbeat attitude to The Workers Club with help from Sydneys greatest glitter-drenched blow-wave anthemists, Nasal On The Brain. Local support from Lakes, Snawklor and the irrepressibly creative hive-mind that is Interzone.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

from top....
Louise models tinitus at Kings ARI photo by Karl VB
Snawklor at Overground part of the Melbourne Jazz Festival photo by Pargaret Gogo
Snawklor in the NGV sculpture garden as part of Hybrids and Folklore part of the Melbourne Jazz Festival and finally Snawklor at the FAT halloween party one of my favourite gigs ever!

tonight we play out last gig for a couple of months, we'll be back doing a national tour with liquid architecture and hopefully produce a recording in the meantime

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Bus Projects, one of Melbourne’s longest running independent art spaces, is on the move and is celebrating with a huge closing party at their home of nine years in Little Lonsdale Street on Saturday 20th March.
Melbourne’s art community are banding together to show their support for this pivotal sound/art/experimental music venue with performances from local outfits including Snawklor (Nathan Gray, Dylan Martorell + Duncan Blachford), Gugg, Super Star and Fatti Frances alongside DJ’s Roda Roda Sound System and a performance piece by Sian and the Velantas.

Artists including Norkiro Nakamura and Nat McQuade will be kicking off a wall-art installation in the gallery, which will be open to party goers to make their mark on a huge mural inside the soon to be demolished building.

Opening in 2001, Bus Projects is an independent art space with a focus on artists engaged in a spatial art practice. That is, any practice that uses its environment as a context to its staging such as sound art, performance, installation, video and the cross-pollination of these forms. Bus Projects continues to take an active role in the professional development of artists and curators through range of workshops and forums and all is not over for this seminal arts space. The team at Bus Projects are in the process of purchasing and transforming a fully operational passenger bus into an exciting new public arts space – allowing them to reach a larger audience, literally wherever Bus may take them. The “Bus Bus” will operate alongside a yet to be realised new gallery space in the inner city, so stay tuned!
In the meantime, get down to Bus Projects Closing Party from 4pm on Saturday 20th March. Tickets are $10 each and are strictly limited so be quick!

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Kings Artist Run Initiative (ARI) is proud to announce its re-launch party to celebrate new and exciting changes to the focus of this long-standing Melbourne ARI. After eight years of presenting the Melbourne art scene with emerging, dynamic and challenging contemporary art, Kings has decided to expand the dialogue with new opportunities for the wider creative community.

To celebrate thier re-launch, they will be hosting a night of video, performance and sound works by leading Melbourne and interstate artists. Playing on the night will be Snawklor (Nathan Gray, Dylan Martorell + Duncan Blachford), Optical Eyes (Emily O'Brien) and Chronox, accompanied by video works by local and interstate artists.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Above are some of John Nixon's Paintings from his recent Anna Schwarz show.
He has been curating a series of experimental music shows in a lecture theatre at the gallery which has included Marco Fuscinato, Paeces, Oren Ambarchi and Always. He has asked Snawklor to play along side two of its constituant parts. Firstly Dylan Martorell playing home made instruments in which he transmutes junk into beautiful sound and occasionally back again.Followed by Vortices- Nathan Gray's solo synth project which explores the visceral pulsations and crying circuit sounds available from pure synthesis. Top this off with one of our increasingly popular meterisch freak out jams with newbie drummer Duncan Blachford and you got yourself a bargain.

Friday, December 4, 2009

Big changes here at the moment. First of all you will notice after many problems all the album downloads have been moved to a seperate linked blog page and all our tracks will now be hosted on the Free Music Archive so there will be no more stuff ups. We're looking for people to review and comment on this stuff at the archive as much as possible as well as on lastfm. Go Street Team. Saturday 19th of DecemberMONA Presents:SnawklorKind WindsDrunk ElkVividsThe Peacock TheatreSalamanca Arts CentreHobart7pm $10

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Playing 2 (!) gigs this weekend sandwiched between our anthropological excursions in the third world. Expect mahouts, exotic instruments and the sure fire combinations of trumpets and wah. Can it fail? Definitely. Place your bets and roll up.

Sunday, March 4, 2007

Station to Station is a collaboration between Nathan Gray and Dylan incorporating field recordings of Melbourne and Osaka and make-shift structures covered in hundreds of small works on paper. It is presented as part of Veiwmasters exhibition at Hamadera Koen Station Gallery in Osaka along with a concert on a tram.

upcoming shows

Snawklor

Snawklor is a decade long musical collaboration between visual artists Dylan Martorell and Nathan Gray. Snawklor as a duo make improvised electro acoustic music and sound installation with whatever is at hand exotic instruments, feild recordings, toys and electronics. As a trio with Duncan Blachford on drums they explore the possibilities available only in louder volumes.

Originally started as a curatorial project which put out limited edition 7 inch lathe cut records pressed by New Zealand's Peter King and exhibited them in 2 exhibitions one in 1996 and one in 1998. "The 50 Record Players Exhibition" was also toured to Brisbane for the 1998 version.

There are roughly 80 7 inch singles on the Snawklor (record label) as well as one 12inch compilation.

At the concerts accompanying these exhibitions the duo began to perform using mainly djing and sound sculpture and this developed into Snawklor the musical duo. This moved into digitally manipulated sound and electro-acoustic improvisation.

From around 2004 the duo began to incorporate live processed acoustic instruments this period had an extremely quiet and delicate sound.The duo played rarely during this period and then only in quieter gallery spaces.

In 2009 the duo incorporated drummer Duncan Blachford and currently perform with guitar and synthesizers, in band orientated spaces, exploring the possibilities of greater volume. The 2 original members still perform as Snawklor Duo, showing the more delicate sound of the band.